id summary reporter owner description type status component version severity resolution keywords cc stage has_patch needs_docs needs_tests needs_better_patch easy ui_ux 5201 Settings won't load when inside a directory named settings Deryck Hodge Adrian Holovaty "I think something has happened since the refatoring of management so that you can no longer have a directory named settings which contains your settings files. For example, I have a directory on my PYTHONPATH which has all my apps I'm working on and then a settings directory which has devel.py and apache.py inside. Something like: {{{ devel_dir -- app1 -- app2 -- settings -- devel.py -- apache.py }}} Normally, I run the with DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=settings.devel, but I noticed today that this no longer works. See this Traceback that might help explain and also shows this worked with a SVN rev prior to r5898 {{{ naminanu:~ hodgedg$ export PYTHONPATH=~/projects/django_trunk_r5897:~/projects/paperlate naminanu:~ hodgedg$ export DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=settings.devel naminanu:~ hodgedg$ django-admin.py validate 0 errors found. naminanu:~ hodgedg$ export PYTHONPATH=~/projects/django/SVN/django/trunk:~/projects/paperlate naminanu:~ hodgedg$ export DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=settings.devel naminanu:~ hodgedg$ django-admin.py validate Traceback (most recent call last): File ""/Users/hodgedg/projects/django/SVN/django/trunk/django/bin/django-admin.py"", line 5, in management.execute_from_command_line() File ""/Users/hodgedg/projects/django/SVN/django/trunk/django/core/management/__init__.py"", line 171, in execute_from_command_line utility.execute(argv) File ""/Users/hodgedg/projects/django/SVN/django/trunk/django/core/management/__init__.py"", line 124, in execute command.execute(*args[1:], **options.__dict__) File ""/Users/hodgedg/projects/django/SVN/django/trunk/django/core/management/base.py"", line 28, in execute translation.activate('en-us') File ""/Users/hodgedg/projects/django/SVN/django/trunk/django/utils/translation/__init__.py"", line 76, in activate return real_activate(language) File ""/Users/hodgedg/projects/django/SVN/django/trunk/django/utils/translation/__init__.py"", line 31, in delayed_loader if settings.USE_I18N: File ""/Users/hodgedg/projects/django/SVN/django/trunk/django/conf/__init__.py"", line 28, in __getattr__ self._import_settings() File ""/Users/hodgedg/projects/django/SVN/django/trunk/django/conf/__init__.py"", line 57, in _import_settings self._target = Settings(settings_module) File ""/Users/hodgedg/projects/django/SVN/django/trunk/django/conf/__init__.py"", line 85, in __init__ raise EnvironmentError, ""Could not import settings '%s' (Is it on sys.path? Does it have syntax errors?): %s"" % (self.SETTINGS_MODULE, e) EnvironmentError: Could not import settings 'settings.devel' (Is it on sys.path? Does it have syntax errors?): No module named devel naminanu:~ hodgedg$ cp -r ~/projects/paperlate/settings/ ~/projects/paperlate/testing/ naminanu:~ hodgedg$ export DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=testing.devel naminanu:~ hodgedg$ django-admin.py validate naminanu:~ hodgedg$ }}} Notice that renaming the directory to something other than ""settings"" fixes the problem. Also, this Tracebook occurred in Trunk against r5919." closed Core (Management commands) dev invalid Unreviewed 0 0 0 0 0 0